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Book Mechanical Design of an Autonomous Redundant Mobile Manipulator

Download or read book Mechanical Design of an Autonomous Redundant Mobile Manipulator written by David Timothy Eveland and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dynamics and Control of Autonomous Space  Vehicles and Robotics

Download or read book Dynamics and Control of Autonomous Space Vehicles and Robotics written by Ranjan Vepa and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the established principles underpinning space robotics with a thorough and modern approach. This text is perfect for professionals in the field looking to gain an understanding of real-life applications of manipulators on satellites, and of the dynamics of satellites carrying robotic manipulators and of planetary rovers.

Book Fundamentals in Modeling and Control of Mobile Manipulators

Download or read book Fundamentals in Modeling and Control of Mobile Manipulators written by Zhijun Li and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobile manipulators combine the advantages of mobile platforms and robotic arms, extending their operational range and functionality to large spaces and remote, demanding, and/or dangerous environments. They also bring complexity and difficulty in dynamic modeling and control system design.

Book Robot Manipulator Redundancy Resolution

Download or read book Robot Manipulator Redundancy Resolution written by Yunong Zhang and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces a revolutionary, quadratic-programming based approach to solving long-standing problems in motion planning and control of redundant manipulators This book describes a novel quadratic programming approach to solving redundancy resolutions problems with redundant manipulators. Known as ``QP-unified motion planning and control of redundant manipulators'' theory, it systematically solves difficult optimization problems of inequality-constrained motion planning and control of redundant manipulators that have plagued robotics engineers and systems designers for more than a quarter century. An example of redundancy resolution could involve a robotic limb with six joints, or degrees of freedom (DOFs), with which to position an object. As only five numbers are required to specify the position and orientation of the object, the robot can move with one remaining DOF through practically infinite poses while performing a specified task. In this case redundancy resolution refers to the process of choosing an optimal pose from among that infinite set. A critical issue in robotic systems control, the redundancy resolution problem has been widely studied for decades, and numerous solutions have been proposed. This book investigates various approaches to motion planning and control of redundant robot manipulators and describes the most successful strategy thus far developed for resolving redundancy resolution problems. Provides a fully connected, systematic, methodological, consecutive, and easy approach to solving redundancy resolution problems Describes a new approach to the time-varying Jacobian matrix pseudoinversion, applied to the redundant-manipulator kinematic control Introduces The QP-based unification of robots' redundancy resolution Illustrates the effectiveness of the methods presented using a large number of computer simulation results based on PUMA560, PA10, and planar robot manipulators Provides technical details for all schemes and solvers presented, for readers to adopt and customize them for specific industrial applications Robot Manipulator Redundancy Resolution is must-reading for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of robotics, mechatronics, mechanical engineering, tracking control, neural dynamics/neural networks, numerical algorithms, computation and optimization, simulation and modelling, analog, and digital circuits. It is also a valuable working resource for practicing robotics engineers and systems designers and industrial researchers.

Book UBot 7

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  • Author : Jonathan P. Cummings
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  • Release : 2014
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  • Pages : 95 pages

Download or read book UBot 7 written by Jonathan P. Cummings and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis presents the design of uBot-7, the latest version of a dexterous mobile manipulator. This platform has been iteratively developed to realize a high performance-to-cost dexterous whole body manipulator with respect to mobile manipulation. The semi-anthropomorphic design of the uBot is a demonstrated and functional research platform for developing advanced autonomous perception, manipulation, and mobility tasks. The goal of this work is to improve the uBot's ability to sense and interact with its environment in order to increase the platforms capability to operate dexterously, through the incorporation of joint torque feedback, and safely, through the implementation of passive and active compliance. This is accomplished through incorporating series elastic actuators in its arms and torso joints, improving the mechanical design to reduce backlash, and incorporating impedance controllers in the robot. The focus of this thesis is the development of the mechanical, sensor, and controller design for the uBot-7 platform. An impedance controller is developed and evaluated on a bench top prototype series elastic actuator.

Book Current Advances in Mechanical Design and Production VII

Download or read book Current Advances in Mechanical Design and Production VII written by M.F. Hassan and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2000-01-31 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Conference on Mechanical Design and Production has over the years established itself as an excellent forum for the exchange of ideas in these established fields. The first of these conferences was held in 1979. The seventh, and most recent, conference in the series was held in Cairo during February 15-17, 2000. International engineers and scientists gathered to exchange experiences and highlight the state-of-the-art research in the fields of mechanical design and production. In addition a heavy emphasis was placed on the issue of technology transfer. Over 100 papers were accepted for presentation at the conference. Current Advances in Mechanical Design & Production VII does not, however, attempt to publish the complete work presented but instead offers a sample that represents the quality and breadth of both the work and the conference. Ten invited papers and 54 ordinary papers have been selected for inclusion in these proceedings. They cover a range of basic and applied topics that can be classified into six main categories: System Dynamics, Solid Mechanics, Material Science, Manufacturing Processes, Design and Tribology, and Industrial Engineering and its Applications.

Book Construction of a Hyper Redundant Robotic Rentacle Manipulator

Download or read book Construction of a Hyper Redundant Robotic Rentacle Manipulator written by Miles C. D. Pekala and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents the design and development of a robotic tentacle manipulator research platform as a tool to explore new methods of enhancing the capabilities of remotely operated manipulators, autonomous manipulation, and autonomous search. We review the current state of dexterous manipulators and past milestones, choose manipulator morphology based on this review, and evaluate the morphology on the basis of design, control, and manufacturing constraints. A feasible architecture for a robotic tentacle manipulator research platform is conceived, designed, and built. Design and development of software, hardware, and mechanical components is presented. Applications of the robotic tentacle manipulator in autonomous robots are investigated. Potential effects of various design decisions are evaluated and strategies for platform improvements are suggested.

Book Redundancy in Robot Manipulators and Multi Robot Systems

Download or read book Redundancy in Robot Manipulators and Multi Robot Systems written by Dejan Milutinović and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The trend in the evolution of robotic systems is that the number of degrees of freedom increases. This is visible both in robot manipulator design and in the shift of focus from single to multi-robot systems. Following the principles of evolution in nature, one may infer that adding degrees of freedom to robot systems design is beneficial. However, since nature did not select snake-like bodies for all creatures, it is reasonable to expect the presence of a certain selection pressure on the number of degrees of freedom. Thus, understanding costs and benefits of multiple degrees of freedom, especially those that create redundancy, is a fundamental problem in the field of robotics. This volume is mostly based on the works presented at the workshop on Redundancy in Robot Manipulators and Multi-Robot Systems at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems - IROS 2011. The workshop was envisioned as a dialog between researchers from two separate, but obviously related fields of robotics: one that deals with systems having multiple degrees of freedom, including redundant robot manipulators, and the other that deals with multirobot systems. The volume consists of twelve chapters, each representing one of the two fields.

Book Mechanical Design and Control of a Redundant Closed chain Manipulator

Download or read book Mechanical Design and Control of a Redundant Closed chain Manipulator written by Asghar Mesbah Nejad and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vision Based Control of a Mobile Manipulator

Download or read book Vision Based Control of a Mobile Manipulator written by Levent Çetin and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, control of a mobile manipulator system with a calibrated stereo rig is presented. Autonomous mobile manipulator equipped with a vision based target monitoring system can find and track a moving target and also manipulate it. The vision system is utilized to obtain task space feedback for mobile manipulator control. Using vision data, mobile platform (base) and manipulator are controlled with a hybrid visual servo controller and dynamic look and move methodology, respectively. This work also introduces a methodology concerning how the positioning error can be distributed between two mechanical subsystems: base and manipulator. In general these two systems have some degrees of freedom, which correspond to a task space motion capability in the same axis.

Book Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports

Download or read book Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Engineering Applications of Noncommutative Harmonic Analysis

Download or read book Engineering Applications of Noncommutative Harmonic Analysis written by Gregory S. Chirikjian and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. The classical Fourier transform is one of the most widely used mathematical tools in engineering. However, few engineers know that extensions of harmonic analysis to functions on groups holds great potential for solving problems in robotics, image analysis, mechanics, and other areas. For those that may be aware of its potential value, there is still no place they can turn to for a clear presentation of the background they need to apply the concept to engineering problems. Engineering Applications of Noncommutative Harmonic Analysis brings this powerful tool to the engineering world. Written specifically for engineers and computer scientists, it offers a practical treatment of harmonic analysis in the context of particular Lie groups (rotation and Euclidean motion). It presents only a limited number of proofs, focusing instead on providing a review of the fundamental mathematical results unknown to most engineers and detailed discussions of specific applications. Advances in pure mathematics can lead to very tangible advances in engineering, but only if they are available and accessible to engineers. Engineering Applications of Noncommutative Harmonic Analysis provides the means for adding this valuable and effective technique to the engineer's toolbox.

Book Design and Implementation of a Closed loop Mobile Manipulator Control System

Download or read book Design and Implementation of a Closed loop Mobile Manipulator Control System written by Omar Aboul-Enein and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobile manipulators, which integrate a robotic manipulator with an automatic-autonomous mobile base, have the potential to augment automation by combining the capability of navigation with complex manipulation to support unstructured and dynamic environments. Targeted applications include manufacturing large-scale parts commonly encountered in the aerospace, energy, shipbuilding, and transportation sectors. While autonomous mobility no longer restricts the robotic manipulator to working at a single, rigidly fixtured workstation or work-piece, the increased flexibility introduces new sources of position and orientation uncertainty, and manufacturing processes of large-scale parts with complex, curved surfaces require high repeatability and accuracy. A standardized measurement methodology, including a configurable measurement artifact to simulate dynamic manufacturing operations, is being developed to identify and evaluate these sources of performance uncertainty. As part of this methodology and associated test methods development, this work details the design and prototype implementation of a closed-loop mobile manipulator control system that integrates feedback from an optical tracking system. Development of the control system presents a new test implementation to demonstrate the performance evaluation of mobile manipulation performance in application scenarios where the workstation or work-piece is physically disturbed during operation or where rapid registration between distant locations along the same work-piece is required. This work will promote advances in control scheme development by providing a standardized, reproducible test method for evaluation in a variety of simulated application spaces.

Book Design of a Second Generation Experimental System for Studying Mobile Manipulator Control

Download or read book Design of a Second Generation Experimental System for Studying Mobile Manipulator Control written by Uwe Bernd Müller and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Control of Redundant Robot Manipulators

Download or read book Control of Redundant Robot Manipulators written by Rajni V. Patel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-09-02 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph provides a comprehensive and thorough treatment of the problem of controlling a redundant robot manipulator. It presents the latest research from the field with a good balance between theory and practice. All theoretical developments are verified both via simulation and experimental work on an actual prototype redundant robot manipulator. This book is the first text aimed at graduate students and researchers working in the area of redundant manipulators giving a comprehensive coverage of control of redundant robot manipulators from the viewpoint of theory and experimentation.

Book Robot Force Control

Download or read book Robot Force Control written by Bruno Siciliano and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the fundamental requirements for the success of a robot task is the capability to handle interaction between manipulator and environment. The quantity that describes the state of interaction more effectively is the contact force at the manipulator's end effector. High values of contact force are generally undesirable since they may stress both the manipulator and the manipulated object; hence the need to seek for effective force control strategies. The book provides a theoretical and experimental treatment of robot interaction control. In the framework of model-based operational space control, stiffness control and impedance control are presented as the basic strategies for indirect force control; a key feature is the coverage of six-degree-of-freedom interaction tasks and manipulator kinematic redundancy. Then, direct force control strategies are presented which are obtained from motion control schemes suitably modified by the closure of an outer force regulation feedback loop. Finally, advanced force and position control strategies are presented which include passivity-based, adaptive and output feedback control schemes. Remarkably, all control schemes are experimentally tested on a setup consisting of a seven-joint industrial robot with open control architecture and force/torque sensor. The topic of robot force control is not treated in depth in robotics textbooks, in spite of its crucial importance for practical manipulation tasks. In the few books addressing this topic, the material is often limited to single-degree-of-freedom tasks. On the other hand, several results are available in the robotics literature but no dedicated monograph exists. The book is thus aimed at filling this gap by providing a theoretical and experimental treatment of robot force control.

Book Intelligent Autonomous Systems 12

Download or read book Intelligent Autonomous Systems 12 written by Sukhan Lee and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-11-02 with total page 861 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intelligent autonomous systems are emerged as a key enabler for the creation of a new paradigm of services to humankind, as seen by the recent advancement of autonomous cars licensed for driving in our streets, of unmanned aerial and underwater vehicles carrying out hazardous tasks on-site, and of space robots engaged in scientific as well as operational missions, to list only a few. This book aims at serving the researchers and practitioners in related fields with a timely dissemination of the recent progress on intelligent autonomous systems, based on a collection of papers presented at the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, held in Jeju, Korea, June 26-29, 2012. With the theme of “Intelligence and Autonomy for the Service to Humankind, the conference has covered such diverse areas as autonomous ground, aerial, and underwater vehicles, intelligent transportation systems, personal/domestic service robots, professional service robots for surgery/rehabilitation, rescue/security and space applications, and intelligent autonomous systems for manufacturing and healthcare. This volume 1 includes contributions devoted to Autonomous Ground Vehicles and Mobile Manipulators, as well as Unmanned Aerial and Underwater Vehicles and Bio-inspired Robotics.